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  1. Now It Can Be Told (2014 Video)

    aka: School for Danger

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 68 minutes), £19.99

    Studies the work carried out during World War 2 by Special Operations Executive (SOE) agents who were trained to assist resistance groups in their fight against Hitler. Two actual British agents, Captain...

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  2. Whisky Galore! (1949)

    Director
    Alexander Mackendrick
    Subject
    English language and literature; Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 83 minutes), £12.99

    When a ship carrying 50,000 cases of whisky runs aground, the inhabitants of a Scottish island cannot resist the temptation to replenish their depleted supplies. Only an English Home Guard captain stands in...

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  3. Fish ‘N’ Ships: Volume 2 (1987 Video)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 43 min., 1995 sale: £35.25 (inclusive)

    Three films showing the the fishing industry in Grimsby and Hull during its heyday in the half century up to the 1970s. Part 1: Follows a giant freezer trawler, one of the then mighty Ross fleet from...

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  4. William Hodges: The Art of Exploration (2004)

    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 50 minutes), £19.99

    The painter William Hodges is increasingly seen as a key figure in eighteenth-century British art and in its relationships with the wider world. In an age of colonial expansion Hodges accompanied Captain...

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  5. Queen of Spades, The (1948)

    Director
    Thorold Dickinson
    Subject
    Film studies; Literature
    Distribution
    DVD (Region 2 PAL, 91 minutes), £15.99

    This atmospheric suspense thriller, one of the finest British films of the forties, is based on a short story by Pushkin. Anton Walbrook stars as Russian army captain Herman Suvorin, who secretly covets the...

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  6. Ted Hughes- Poems and Short Stories: The Spoken Word (2008)

    Subject
    Drama; English language and literature; Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, Audio (CD), £15.50

    The first of a pair of 2-CD sets drawn from the BBC radio broadcasts of Ted Hughes features live and studio recordings of the poet introducing and reading his own work. The recordings include his earliest...

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  7. Canterbury Tales, The (2005)

    Director
    Marc Munden; John McKay; Julian Jarrold; Andy De Emmony
    Producer
    Kate Bartlett
    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (300 minutes), £26 (IMC); £1,170 (BBC Active)

    Six part drama series, consisting of retellings of six of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, updated for a modern audience and given a contemporary setting. Starring Julie Walters, James Nesbit, Billie...

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  8. London’s Forgotten Children: Thomas Coram and the Foundling Hospital (2012)

    Subject
    History; Social welfare

    Video recording of a lecture held on 7 March 2012 in the series ‘The Lost Hospitals of London’ organised by Gresham College. (53 minutes) In 1739, Captain Thomas Coram was dismayed at the sight of...

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  9. Epic of Everest, The (2014)

    Subject
    Geography
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 88 minutes), £19.99

    The 1924 Everest expedition culminated in the deaths of two of the finest climbers of their generation, George Mallory and Andrew Irvine, and sparked an ongoing debate over whether or not they did indeed...

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  10. Sinking of the Belgrano, The (2004)

    Subject
    Archaeology; History; Military Science; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 54 minutes), £12.99

    An investigation into the sinking of the Argentinian battleship General Belgrano which was torpedoed by a British submarine during the Falklands War of 1982. Controversy still surrounds the incident since it...

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